[f. APPROPRIATE v. + -ING1.] A making over to a special owner or purpose; a taking as one’s own.
1611. Cotgr., Appropriance, an appropriation, or appropriating.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., Wks. 1851, 230. The appropriating of that good which Nature at first made common.
a. 1711. Ken, Urania, Wks. 1721, IV. 476. The ecstatick Bliss … In the appropriating of Love immense.
